Bill Text: NY S01063 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring counselors to have certain courses of study or equivalent on-the-job experience including on providing trauma-informed, patient-centered care, treating co-occurring disorders and sensitivity training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [S01063 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01063-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1063--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. PERSAUD, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Alcoholism  and
          Drug Abuse -- recommitted to the Committee on Alcoholism and Substance
          Abuse   in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to approved  courses
          of study or equivalent on-the-job experience for counselors

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (d)  of  section  19.07  of  the
     2  mental  hygiene  law, as amended by section 5 of part I of chapter 58 of
     3  the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1) The office shall establish minimum qualifications  for  counselors
     5  in  all phases of delivery of services to persons and their families who
     6  are suffering  from  alcohol  and/or  substance  abuse  and/or  chemical
     7  dependence  and/or  compulsive  gambling  that shall include, but not be
     8  limited to, completion  of  approved  courses  of  study  or  equivalent
     9  on-the-job  experience  in  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse counseling
    10  and/or counseling of compulsive gambling. Such approved courses of study
    11  or equivalent on-the-job experience shall include: providing  trauma-in-
    12  formed,  patient-centered  care;  treating  co-occurring  disorders; and
    13  sensitivity training. Such courses shall be updated as needed to reflect
    14  evolving best practices  in  harm  reduction,  treatment  and  long-term
    15  recovery. For the purposes of this paragraph, sensitivity training shall
    16  mean  a  form  of  training with the goal of making people more aware of
    17  their own prejudices and more sensitive to others.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00847-02-0